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Title: The Civil Rights Movement and Black Power


1
The Civil Rights Movement and Black Power
  • 1. Factors Influencing the Civil Rights
    Movement
  • 2. Civil Rights Movement Progressive Narrative
  • 3. Civil Rights Movement Redemptive
  • Narrative

2
Protest as a Historical Continuum The House
that Race Built
  • Progressive Narrative Tragic Redemptive
    Narrative
  • DU BOIS GARVEY
  • MARTIN LUTHER KING MALCOM X
  • JR.
  • PANTHERS
  • SOUTH NORTH

3
Factors Influencing the Civil Rights Movement
  • 1. Increased number of blacks in north
  • 2. Impact of World War II
  • 3. Increased access to education
  • 4. Widespread access to television
  • 5. Growth of a black culture industry
  • 6. Anti-colonialist movements in Africa
    Caribbean
  • 7. US and global politics.

4
Progressive Narrative
  • Southern
  • Baptist
  • Multiracial and assimilationist
  • Non-violent
  • Media centered
  • Student organized
  • NAACP as legal representative

5
Redemptive Narrative
  • Northern
  • Separatist
  • Africa as source of inspiration
  • Slavery as ongoing
  • Community based
  • Confrontational

6
Kerner Commission (1968)
  • US divided, along racial and socio-economic
    lines, into two societies 40 of non-whites
    lived below the federal government's poverty
    line
  • Black men were twice as likely to be un-employed
    as whites and three times as likely to be in
    low-skill jobs
  • The commission viewed this poverty as the cause
    of crime and civil unrest.

7
The Question of Integration
  • African American parents felt that their
    children were
  • punished unfairly and were discouraged from using
  • their talents, and that parents and their
    children were
  • treated with hostility. African American students
    felt
  • some teachers were insensitive in the manner in
  • which they handled classroom topics related to
    the
  • history and experiences of African Americans.
    They
  • also felt they had to prove their worth and
    abilities . . .
  • And when they did, they were considered to be
  • unusual. . .While these students were able to
    survive
  • they never felt that they fitted in or felt
    safe and
  • secure as they had at Trenholm High. (Price They
    Paid 11)

8
Black Power in a Caribbean Context
  • Established historical continuity between Garvey
    and contemporary resistance
  • Challenged white cultural referents and valorized
    blackness
  • Drew its language and metaphors from
    Rastafarianism
  • Critical of the educational system and the middle
    class but
  • Relied on a homogenized lower-class blackness
    that failed to address issues of Indian
    ethnicity.
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